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Uh. Okay, I guess I should blog about the Eklektos Celebration thingie we attended last night. Hahaha.

So yeah, the speaker was this guy called Jay Koopman and he currently lives in Hollywood, California. Yep. And so he shared this amazing testimony of his, which - as he did tell us before starting on his story - really did sound like a movie of some sort.

I don't exactly remember every single detail of his rather long story, but to say it in one sentence would be that he had a very difficult childhood. His parents sold, dealt and actually did hard drugs. He found out that his mother was actually prostituting herself to get drugs and money. He soon found himself involved in selling drugs, and eventually, doing them himself. When he was in his late teens, he ended up in jail. (Again, I only remember certain points of the story, and I'm sorry if I might have told some parts wrong, so those who went and listened to him speak, correct me if you find any errors in what I'm writing, okay?)

So, growing up in such harsh conditions and circumstances made Jay a very angry, bitter and difficult person. He ended up hating his mother and everyone/everything else that had made him that way. He was angry at God.

His [Christian] aunt was the one who started his unique journey to finding Christ. She showed him unconditional love. She got him to enter this Christian teen program thing for jail inmates, and although he only agreed to go because he wanted to be any other place but jail, and it was difficult to get in, he did. After a series of events (I seriously can't bring myself to remember much of them, to be honest! I'm horrible -_-) he came to God and was released from the anger that were his chains. He felt free again.

So yeah. Darn, it really was moving. Hahaha. Again, sorry if my story has some inaccurate areas!!